escaping issue with script that uses ssh via sshpass and runs nmap inside ssh server

Question

Problem is, when using the sshpass command you need to use ‘ ‘ (apostrophes) in order to input the command. When I try to use nmap, I'm using hostname -I and awk. The awk ‘{print .. ‘ apostrophe clashes with the sshpass apostrophe.

Is there any alternatives or ways to change that?

I want to run:

sshpass -p “pass” ssh -o Strict…=no user@ip ‘ nmap $(hostname -I | awk ‘{print $1}’) ‘

Answer 1

You need to escape $ with \:

sshpass -p “pass” ssh user@ip "nmap \$(hostname -I | awk '{print \$1}')"